The War Widow - A Novel

Zusatztext "Tara Moss has created a streetwise, seductive and staunchly feminist sleuth who even darns her own stockings…[Billie Walker] is a former war correspondent, whose photojournalist husband is missing, presumed dead…The war might be over, but the novel is deeply interested in its wreckage."  Informationen zum Autor TARA MOSS is a Canadian-born bestselling author and award-winning human rights and disability advocate. She has written fourteen books of fiction and non-fiction published in nineteen countries in over a dozen languages, including her #1 internationally bestselling memoir,  The Fictional Woman . Her most recent book is the historical crime thriller  The Ghosts of Paris , following on from the international bestseller  The War Widow,  both featuring 1940s “staunchly feminist, champagne-swilling, fast-driving Nazi hunter” investigator Billie Walker. Moss is a long-standing UNICEF ambassador. In 2021 she was chosen as a Global Change Maker by Conscious Being magazine for her disability and chronic pain activism and was a recipient of the Honorary Citizen Award for the City of Victoria for her work on accessibility rights. In 2015 she received an Edna Ryan Award for her significant contribution to feminist debate, speaking out for women and children and inspiring others to challenge the status quo, and in 2017 she was recognized as one of the Global Top 50 Diversity Figures in Public Life, for using her position in public life to make a positive impact in diversity, alongside Malala Yousafzai, Angelina Jolie, and others. Her in-depth book research has seen her earn her private investigator credentials, tour the FBI Academy at Quantico, spend time in morgues and criminology conferences, take polygraph tests, shoot weapons, conduct surveillance, pass the Firearms Training Simulator (FATSII) with the LAPD and acquire her CAMS race driver licence. She has hosted many documentaries, including Tough Nuts: Australia’s Hardest Criminals on CI and Amazon Prime, Tara Moss Investigates on Nat Geo, and Cyberhate with Tara Moss , as well as author interview show Tara in Conversation . She has spoken at hundreds of schools and festivals, and interviewed Gloria Steinem, Naomi Klein, and Alison Bechdel, among many others. Tara Moss lives with her family in British Columbia. Zusammenfassung The war may be officially over, but journalist Billie Walker’s search for a missing young German immigrant plunges her right back into the danger and drama she thought she’d left behind in Europe. A thrilling tale of courage and secrets set in glamorous post-war Sydney. Sydney, Australia, 1946. Though war correspondent Billie Walker is happy to finally be home, the heady post-war days are tarnished by the death of her father and the disappearance in Europe of her husband, Jack. To make matters worse, now that the war is over, the newspapers are sidelining her reporting talents to prioritize jobs for returning soldiers. But Billie is a survivor and she’s determined to take control of her own future. She reopens her late father’s business, a private investigation agency, and slowly, the women of Sydney come knocking. At first, Billie’s bread and butter is tailing cheating husbands. Then a young man, the son of European immigrants, goes missing, and Billie finds herself on a dangerous new trail that will lead to the highest levels of Sydney society as well as the city’s underworld. What is the young man’s connection to an exclusive dance club and a high-class auction house? When the people she questions start to turn up dead, Billie is thrown into the path of Detective Inspector Hank Cooper. Will he take her seriously or just get in her way? As the danger mounts and Billie realizes how much is at stake, it becomes clear that although the war was won, it is far from ov...

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• Autori: Tara Moss
• Editore: Harper Collins Usa
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 05.05.2020
• EAN: 9781443461214
• ISBN: 978-1-4434-6121-4
• Pagine: 368
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 229 mm x 23 mm
• Categorie: FICTION: Historical / General, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / General